Deborah Kirshner

Deborah Kirshner has spent her adult life as a professional violinist. She studied with Itzhak Perlman at Brooklyn College, where she enrolled in a Masters program. In 2003 she published her first article, “The Genius of Django,” for The Walrus Magazine which earned her a Gold National Magazine Award in Arts and Literature. She subsequently published two more pieces that also received national attention. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction at the Banff Center. Mahler’s Lament is her first novella.